Re: Bash colour codes

[pauline-galea]

Would you know where to find some documentation for that?  I am finding
it very hard to find details beyond the indexed color mode setting.

It is now accepting rgb now, as you told me.

> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 10:33 AM
> From: "Koichi Murase" <myoga.murase@gmail.com>
> To: pauline-galea@gmx.com
> Cc: "help-bash" <help-bash@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: Bash colour codes
>
> 2021年4月17日(土) 7:12 <pauline-galea@gmx.com>:
> > Is the following format correct?
> >
> > \e[48;5;200;100;50;38;5;50;100;200m
> 
> No. 5 is for indexed colors. Use 2 for RGB colors. It depends on the
> terminal, but usually
> 
>   \e[48;2;$bgR;$bgG;$bgB;38;2;$fgR;$fgG;${fgR}m
> 
> will work mostly. Some terminals support
> 
>   \e[48:2:$bgR:$bgG:$bgB;38:2:$fgR:$fgG:${fgR}m
> 
> Some other terminals support
> 
>   \e[48:2::$bgR:$bgG:$bgB;38:2::$fgR:$fgG:${fgR}m
> 
> which was originally specified in ISO 8613-6. Your terminal Terminator
> seems to support all of these versions.
> 
> --
> Koichi
>